"As temperatures rise, cancer mortality among women also rises -- particularly for ovarian and breast cancers," lead investigator Wafa Abu El Kheir-Mataria said in a news release. She's a global health governance and health equity researcher at the American University in Cairo.

In a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Public Health, researchers discovered that climate change—long-term shifts in temperature and weather patterns primarily driven by the burning of fossil fuels—could be behind increasing cancer rates and deaths among women in the Middle East and North Africa.

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